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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
SCARLET FEVER.
No Reason why Is Should
at This Time.

The Salt Lake Tribune says: There is
o good deal of scarlet fever and diphtheria
in this city, and though no reasons are ap-
parent Why it should particularly prevail
at this time, it is not decreasing. We be-
lieve that the blame for this lies in the
carelessness of the men who act as the
Board of Health and the criminal careless
ness of many people in whose families one
or both of these diseases prevail or have
prevailed recently. We know of one fam
lily where a child was taken i'll and the
physician p: denounced the disease scarlet
fever. The Quarantine doctor was at
once notified. He came and put up q
yellow flag in the front yard. The child
died a few days later, and then he came
and took away the flag. He did not ask
a question as to whether the house had
been d~isinfected; paid no attention what
ever to the going and coming of the FAM
ily-in short, took not the slightest precau-
ton to guard against the spread of the dis
ease except to put up the flag. The fam.
ily took every possible precaution, but il
they had not it would have been all the
same to this Quarantine doctor" Now
there are plenty of families here who
would, should one child in the family be
i'll, send another child right out OF the at
mosphere of the sick room into the crowd
ed streets and stores down town. The
heads of the families, after handling the
sick children, will, in some cases. go out
upon the streets in the same clothes. Dogs
are permitted to go in and rub against and
lick the faces of sick children and then go
out and play with the children in the
neighborheod; Many of these people do
not know that such work is wrong, others
do not care. Then the matter that is car.
ried from the sick room, and the cast.off
clothing of the sick Is not looked after
carefully, and so when the %contagion fast
ems itself upon a neighborhood it seems
only to stop like a fire that is left to itself,
when there is nothing more to consume.
Surely our city authorities should appoint
a competent Board of Health and give it
authority to act. For the failure to do
this the families of the city pay annually
by giving up what is dearer to them than
their wi lives, and the city pays in the
distrust which comes to the minds Of peo-
pie when they see so many children
dying in a place which, according to all
outward signs, ought to be as healthy as
any spot on earth.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

PickpOckets In French Churches'
The operation of "church thieves y are
becoming so annoying in Paris that the
proper authorities are called upon urgently
to make a clean sweep of these sacrillglons
rogues. 1t seems strange that the author
tiles have not tried to do this before, @
pocket-picking and other varieties OF lar
cency were always freely and impudently
carried out during divine service or on &C.
casions when the churches were crowdedl1
some fete or solemnity. The boldest e'
PLOTS of the thieves are performing during
the fashionable marriages which take piSce
in tho Madeleine or in st. Augustin's. ihs
l~ight6ngered folk manage to follow NV
bridal procession to the altar and to s,s'
t on themselves behind the bride and BRIDE
81 90 n and their friends. When the n.y.
meneal party proceed to the vsstry Tor Ins
purpose of signing the register the thieves
make a descent on the vacated cnaIs'
and quickly seize pocket-handkercnie's'
purses, umbrellas, prayer-books, smelling,
bottles, fans, or other articles which may
have been left behind. The pomPous
beadles, who stalk about the church wnsa
they are not wanted, are as a rule ensas'Si
in too busily watching their chances
obtaining fees during the slghin ny
of the register to keep a lnok' t%s
after thieves, but it is to be hoped tina. IN ~
ecclesiastics who have been appealed 70 ~
the matter will adopt the necessary mea an
ures for the prevention of such thei'S W
future occasions. Exchange.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
BOARD OF PARDONs.
Jack Davis last Attempt 10 Gel
nc Wells, rargO's BOx-fardOn Oh,
Robert Hamilton Brave Messen'

Robert Hamilton Brave Messehn.
gers.
The Board of Pardons met at 10 A. M.
Wednesday, all but the Attorney General
present. Application of Robert Sinclair
denied. Robert Hamilton was p%ardoned.
Adjourned to call of Governor. Tribune.
Hamilton was convicted in 1873 of rob-
bling the stage between Eureka and Typo.
Jack Davis, the notorious Verdi car-rob-
Der of 1868, Bob Hamilton, and another
whose name has never been revealed went to
a station on the stage road, quietly gagged
and bound everybody at the station and
waited for the stage. Tom Lawrie, an
accomplice, lit two fires on Pinto mount
ain, where they could be seen from the
station denotiug that there were two shot
gun messengers on board, and also plenty
Of money. The messengers were Eugene
Blair and Jim Brown two of the best
men Wells, Fargo had in the service.
When the stage arrived at the station Jack
Davis called upon the messengers to throw
up their hands. 1t was very dark. The
messengers thought it was a josh and
started to get down from the stage when
bang! went a double arrsled shotgun.
Blair Immediately grabbed a man he saw
near the horses and brought him to his
knees. Brown leaned over from the stage
placed his gun over Blair's shoulder and
shot the robber, tearing frightful wounds
in his back, f,om the shoulders down. As
Brown was getting down from the stage he
received a pistol ball in the leg from one of
the robbers, who had come to the rear Of
the stage. When Davis was shot the
other two robbers fled.
The stage returned to Eureka. Davis
lived about two hours. and the messengers
say he would not tell who were mis- accom-
plices, but only said if the others had been
as good as himself the messengers would
have been in his place.
Lawrie returned to Eureka before the
stage did and Hamilton made his way to
California and returned about a week
later. They were then arrested, receiving
IA years each.
Lawrie had q brother, a minister of the
Gospel, in Pennsylvania, who was q close
friend of Governor Curtin, and he got suf-
6cient influence that 10y csming out here
he got his brother out about six years
age, though he had served a previous sen.
tence.
Jack Davis was convicted in 1869 of
completely in the Verdi cor robbery and
was sent for a term of years to the State
Prison. The robbers got on that occasion
about $50, 600, nearly all of which was re-
covered. Davis vas p~arloned for reveal
ing the whereabouts of some of it. In
prison he was not considered a man of
"sand, bnt rather had the reputation
of "squealing or "peaching." Hamil-
ton is a very qriet man, and is not be-
lieved that slight offers would ever induce
him to say a word that would implicate
anyone when trusted upon his honor in
" social" affairs. He is a good worker
by having been pardoned than he would
if he had served his term out.-Enter.
prise.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
MRS. A ER.S sCnEME.
Under Certain Conditions 1t Would
be q Success.


The scheme of Mrs. Parker, to send
needy English gentlewomen to California,
under certain conditions would be a sue.
cess. If she will say to those "needy
gentlewomer," "You are living here a
sh~ahby.genteel life. Your incomes are
pitiful. If you will perfect yourselves as
cooks and house-keepers, perfect your
selves in a way that we can send endorse
ments with you, and will go with a deter
mination to do house work for honest
money, you car count on receiving ESQ per
annum each and board; you can lay up in
four years EGO each with which you can
buy for yourselves homes through which
you can make independent livings for your.
selves. But if you, on arrival there, make
up your minds to be shocked at every
thing; to tell in what state you were &C
customed to live in England; if on trial it
shall be established that you do not know
enough to boil potatoes or make a bed, you
will have to get out and make room for
the inevitable Cinnamon. If you can walk
OF ten miles for exercise, and it breaks
your backs to sweep a 12x14 room, you
are liable to have trouble" We are afraid
viz 6OhViCWoAlCA 1 udEuly SuCCeSOs Lie
wages of servants in England are much
lower than in America and their work is
less laborious. These women would not
be used to such conditions. There is a
way, though, that the scheme might be
made a success. If the promoters of the
scheme would establish a cooking and
housekeeping school and send for American
woman for teachers in that school; then
take poor girls of say IA years of age, give
them two years of special training and
send them to California, they would find
places the moment they set foot on the soil
of the Golden State; they would obtain
situations and good homes, and their
chances for honorable marriage would be a
thousand per cent better thar at present.
Such a scheme ought to be self.supporting.
too, after three years. Girls so trained
and then transported to where employ
ment would be instantly and permanently
secured to them ought to b. willing to pay
back the expenditure. 1t would work
with perfect SUCCESSES. L. Tribune.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
The Boomers Song.

Grass Valley Union: While in Nevada
City a day or two since we met a gentle.
man who came into the city, and he
talked ~straightway in such words as
follows:
Tell me not in mournful numbers that the
town is full of gloom, for the mans a crank
who slumbers in these busting days of
BOOM. Life is real, earnest, and the grave
is not its goal. Every dollar that thou
turnest helps to make the old town roll.
enjoyment and not sorrow is our des-
tined end or way; if you have no money,
borrow-buy a corner lot each day! Lives
of great men all remind us, we can win
immortal fame; let us leave the chumps be-
hind us and We'll get there just the same.
In the worlds broad field of battle, in the
bivouac of life, let us make the dry bones
a corner for your wife! Let
u.s. then be up and doing with a heart for
any fate, still achieving, still pursuing,
booming early, booming late.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Chattanooga is greatly excited owe

Chattanooga is greatly excited over a
faith cure, which, it is said, took place
Saturday night. For a year and a half
Mrs. W. S. Jordan has been utterly help.
less, and during all of that time has been
confined to her bed. An emissary to the
Christian Science, of Boston, arrived in
the city Saturday, and a prayer service
lasting two hours was held in the room
of the sick woman. She joined heartily
in the service, and all at once arose from
her bed, put on her clothes, and left the
house. She walked a distance of ten
squares unaided. Sunday morning she
attended church for the first time in two
years. When she entered church a de.
cided sensation was created, her most in.
innate friends refusing to believe their
own eyes. Mrs. Jordan is a firm believer
in the faith cure. She has been unable
to leave her bed for over eighteen months.
The affair has caused a genuine sensation.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

Governor Stevenson, of Idaho, has
submitted his annual report to the Sec.
tary of the Interior. The population of
the Territory is 81, $50; assessed valua.
tion of taxable property, $50, AL, 1872;
number of cattle, 442, S65; sheep, 3O2,.
24l; hogs, COAL; horses, 1872, O2l. The
production of gold, silver and lead dur.
ing the year ended September 80 is
estimated at: Gold, $2,4l7, 42O; silver,
$4,633, l6o; lead, SO, 1875, 900. The Gov.
ernor writes a strong protest against the
proposed division of the Territory and
annexing its parts to other States and
Territories, and says: "All we desire :.
to be let alone, to preserve our identity
as Idaho undivided and entire, until in
our good time we come, in full conscious.
ness OF the justice and merit of our
claim, requesting admission into the
sisterhood of States.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
The Gambling Cases.

Judge Rising has rendered his decision
in the famous one-story gambling cases.
He decided that the floors hitherto laid, on
which the games were carried on, were not
stories in the eye of the law. Neverthe-
less only a technical offense had been COM
mitted, since the parties had been licensed
by the county, and there was an absence
of intention to violate the law. More
over, the statute, while forbidding the
maintenance of gambling games anless on
first stories, is silent as to the penalty,
lone whatever being stated.
This sustains fully Justice Kehoe's de-
cision on the cases when first brought be.
fore him for ii l.-Virginia City Report.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

There is an Anarchist in London who
halls from Chicago, and has been telling
the people of the metropolis that his
condemned brethren are treated with the
utmost cruelty. They are dubbed,
deluged with electricity, kept awake O.
nights with glazing lamps and otherwise
maltreated. This Anarchist is a liar, of
course, but he is as truthful as most of
his fellows and quite as trustworthy
authority on American prisons as Henry
George is on the American land system.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Death of a Comanche Chief.

Otter Belt, one Of the greatest Of
Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Terri
tory a few days ago. Five minutes before
his death they held him erect and
rugged him out in his best wal costume.
They painted him red, set his war bonnet
on his head. tied up his hair in beaver
skins and laid him down just as he died.
Then his five wives took sharp butcher
knives, slashed their faces with long, deep
beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their
hair. They also burned everything they
had, tepees, furniture, and even most of
the clothing they had on. A big crowd
of bucks lookad on and killed ten horses.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Grief Too Great for Utterance.

The Wardner, Idaho, News Y Pro-
fessor Clayton tells a thrilling experience.
At Ruby City, while looking over a claim
to determine the most favorable place to
prospect for a blind ledge, an extension of
a valuable mine, he accidentally, in mark.
ing the GROUND, dug up some good ore and
exposed the ledge. The locators, who had
yroyn with 5J him. 20 on an Of " them nduiye sIj IL
a great deal of profanity, cursing his luck
for having triied away a fortune. Turn
ing to his partner, who was less demonstra-
tive, he inquired, "Why don't you kick?'
"Don't talk to me I am hurt so bad I can't
kick. I'm bleeding inside"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
SHOT HER FATHER.lN.LAw.
Startling Sequel to the Mcdonald
Marital Troubles.

A special dispatch from San Francisco
to the Chronicle contains the following
sensational sequel to the marital troub-
les of Mrs. Clara Bell Mcdonald, daugh.
ter of Major Gardner, a resident of Car.
son.
Mrs. Clara Bell Mcdonald, wife of
Mcdonald, Jr., Vice President of the
Pacific Bank, attempted to shoot Melon.
AIDS father, R. H. Mcdonald. in the Bald
win Hotel parlor last evening.
Mrs. Mcdonald had held a lengthy
consultation with her father-in-law at the
latter's room. They afterward repaired
to the parlor of the hotel, where the con.
versation was continued.
The conversation had been amicable I'M
til they were about to separate, when Mrs.
Mcdonald proposed to Mcdonald, ST.,
that if he could settle $50, 900 on her and
the same amount on her child she would
compromis out of court pending the di-
vorce suit between herself and husband.
If not she threatened to kill him, her child
and her husband.
Mcdonald positively declined to accede
to her request, saying that her huband, his
son, had already given her more than $780,.
600.
Mcdonald spoke about retiring, and was
about to leave the room when Mrs. Nc.
Donald drew a pistol and fred at him.
Mcdonald seized her and attempted to
take the pistol away, when the desperate
woman fred again. By this time she had
fallen to the floor in the scufle that ensued
and Mcdonald, still attempting to grasp
the pistol, was on top.
Mrs. Mcdonald then fred a third shot,
this one taking slight effect in his fore.
head.
The guests of the hotel then rushed in
and stopped further action. Mrs. MELON.
aid was then taken to the City Jail. She
appeared COO! and collective. On her per-
son was also found a dagger.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

Silver State: Alex. Wise has orders
to bed sixty.eight cars right away for
cattle shippers and he wants a hundred
more in the heal future. The orders
cannot be filed, however, as Traffic Man.
ager Stubs thinks the State has no flu.
ture east of Reno, and takes no pains to
accommodate the people. James Richie,
Of Paradise, has seven carloads and N.
II. A. Mason has ten carloads of cattle
here awaiting shipment, but there are no
cars to be had,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Departure Of Old Timers.

j. b. V. Perry and wife, for several
years residents of Eureka left here last
Monday for Santa Monica, where they
nave gone to reside permanently. We
JON with a host of friends in the wish that
the change OF climate will be beneficial to
Jae.s health; that his old enemy, rheu-
matlsm, will shake his acquaintance, and
mat he vii! find for himself and his good
%ite a comfortable home for their declin-
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
A Broker. Broken Nos.

Seth Cook, notorious some years ago as
the manipulation of the rotten Alta. Benton
stock deal, and John 7. Hill, a capitalist,
also noted for ways dark and tricks vain.
while discussing a "reminiscences of a some.
what unsavory order, in San Francisco.
yesterday, engaged in a fistic debate, dur.
which Hill struck Cook a terrific blow on
the nose, breaking that organ. The Call
Cook will not appear on street parade
for some days.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

Warden Mccullough brought in from
the State Prison the frontal part of a
rhinoceros skull, found on the grounds
yesterday, and ne proposes to 60 after
the whole remains. The chances are
that instead of Mount Ararat being the
rock on which old Noah's craft struck,
the Nevada State Prison rocks will be
proved the wrecking spot, and that the
skeleton found some weeks since will
turn out to be that of Shem, Ham or
Japhet.-Carson Tribune.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Tho Country.s Finances.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. ga Washington
special to the Press reports Secretary Fair
child as saying that be has figures to show
that during the past fifteen months the
amount OF money in the hands of the peo.
pie has increased over $103, OOO, 900. The
Government holds that much less money
than it did fifteen months ago. The sur.
plus in the hands of the Government is
less than S25, 00O, 900. Of his Forthcoming
report Mr.. Fairchild says that it will be
short, its recommendations having more
relation to the policy of the Administra.
ton thar simply to the workings of the
Department.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

In the District Court at Virginia Satur-
day, Judge Rising dismissed the indict-
ments against the gamblers for alleged
violation of the clause in the act restrict
ing them from dealing games of chance on
the floors of premises. The cases were dis.
missed on the ground that the defendants
had paid a licence to deal on the floors
where they were located at the time they
were arrested.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

Fond Mother-Pa, what business do you
think we ought to start Willard in? He's
getting to be eighteen years old and ought
to get into something.
Fond ,Father-It's marc telling what he's
fitted for.
Fond Mother-Yes; he's as proud as
Lucifer, but he's neat as wax.
Fond Father-Well, then, let's start him
in the match business.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
A Sinful CITY.

The Carson Appeal says: GA local
physician informed the writer that he be.
lieved there are over 30 children in this
city under Is years of age whose persons
have been violated by men. The Appeal
has no desire to prejudice the case of
Campbell, who is in the hands of the law,
but nothing less than a lynching will keep
rascals from running children of ten
years."
Would not Carson be a good field for
Rev. Mr.. Chubbuck, who has been wag.
ing a relentless war in Reno the past week
against vices generally, and this sin partic-
ularly?
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Batenlan Estate.

John CARRIER, ex-Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nevada, has fled in San Fran
cisco his annual inventory as guardian of
the estate of Frank L. Bateman, a minor.
The document shows that there is out at
interest s36, 1879 in money belonging to the
minor, and that his other property consists
of stock of the Austin City New Water
Works, valued at $ 5000; stock OF the In.
City, valued at $50, 7lS; stock in the
Mount Diablo Mining Company, worth
$3.50, and a reversionary interest in land in
Alameda worth 81, 900.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Indian TrniIers After Robbers.

The plan Of using Yuma Indian trailers
to catch the robbers who stopped the train
at Papago is a very sensible one. OF all
the Arizona Indians the Yumas are pre-.
eminent for their ability to follow a trail.
Give them the starting point, and they
will run down q fugitive with the certainty
and almost with the speed of a blood.
hound. So well is this known throughout
Arizona that it forms one of the chief
checks to escapes from the territorial prison
at Yuma. There has rarely been an es-
cape known of a prisoner who was fol-
lowed by these %tireless sleuth. hounds
San Francisco Chronicle.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Never Give I'm.

If you suffer with asthma, bronchitis. or
any other disease of the throat or lungs.
nothing can surprise You more than the
rapid Improvement that will follow the
use OF Santa Able: If you are troubled
with catarrh. and have tried other medi.
cines, you WIN be unable to express your
amazement at the marvellous and instants.
Cure. These remedies are not secret rom
pounds, but natural productions Of Cali.
fornia. Sold by John s. Capron. Main
street, Eureka. Nevada, at 81 a package.
three for 81 so. se'
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Another Man Craxy.

William Ely packed his clothes down to
the railroad depot last Wednesday morn.
ing and requested the driver of the bus
to collect charges for carrying himself
and baggage to Charley Lautenschlager.
ihe Sheriff took him in custody on a
charge of insanity, "Billy" is in Jail,
and lmagines that he had snakes in his
boots when he was arrested. He is per-
fectly docile, and will probably be all
right in a few days.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
Making Him n DOclor.

how is my boy getting on I" in
CURED an anxious father of one Of our city
school teachers lately. Wonderful WE'LL"
replied the teacher, she is making rapid
progress in everything but penmanship.
I'm sorry to say he's the worst writer in
tne school," "Pshaw !" returned the
Iather; don't trouble yourself on that
him."
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

Summarizing the news of the day, the
Sen Francisco Post of October 25 SAYS:
The only good feature of the situation on
the street this morning is the absence of
news from Virginia City. Pointers from
that quarter are generally good to copper,
for nine times out of ten the market here
acts directly the opposite way. 1t is safe
to say that more money has been lost on
this dead.sure business from the front than
on local tins.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29

A chronic .dyspeptic sends the Reno
Gazette the following:
We may live without poetry, music and
art.
We may live without conscience, and
live without heart.
We may live without friends, we may
live without books.
But civilized man cannot live without
cooks.